Praise to the predecessors, competitors and non-celebrated co-authors!
"... first rhodopsin in a procaryote (Oesterhelt & Stoeckenius, 1971)"
"... bacteriorhodopsin (BR) which started in the mid-1970s (Bamberg, 1977; Herrmann & Rayfield, 1976)"
"Ernst Bamberg and Georg Nagel decided to study BR in the membrane of an animal cell, the oocyte of Xenopus laevis "
Citations from: Hegemann&Nagel (2013) doi:10.1002/emmm.201202387
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